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Fall factor

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Accurate measurements on the behaviour of a climbing rope during the entire fall can be explained if the undamped harmonic oscillator is complemented by a non-linear term up to the maximum impact force, and then, near the maximum force in the rope, internal friction in the rope is added that ensures the rapid relaxation of the rope to its rest position.
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formula assures that the transformation will continue to be valid for different gravity fields, as over a slope making less than 90 degrees with the horizontal. This simple undamped harmonic oscillator model of a rope, however, does not correctly describe the entire fall process of real ropes.
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to 10 feet below—a factor 2 fall). This fall produces far more force on the climber and the gear than if a similar 20 foot fall had occurred 100 feet above the belayer. In the latter case (a fall factor of 0.2), the rope acts like a bigger, longer rubber band, and its stretch more effectively
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falls past the belayer (two times the distance of the rope length between them), or the anchor if the climber is solo climbing the route using a self-belay. As soon as the climber clips the rope into protection above the belay, the fall factor drops below 2.
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The impact force is defined as the maximum tension in the rope when a climber falls. We first state an equation for this quantity and describe its interpretation, and then show its derivation and how it can be put into a more convenient form.
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between the rope and particularly the last clipped carabiner. "Dry" friction (i.e., a frictional force that is velocity-independent) leads to an effective rope length smaller than the available length
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As a numerical example, consider a fall of 20 feet that occurs with 10 feet of rope out (i.e., the climber has placed no protection and falls from 10 feet above the
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The smallest possible fall factor is zero. This occurs, for example, in top-rope a fall onto a rope with no slack. The rope stretches, so although
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There are two factors of two involved in the interpretation of this equation. First, the maximum force on the top piece of protection is roughly 2
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is short and fixed, while the distance the climber can fall depends on the gaps between anchor points of the safety cable (i.e. the climber's
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When climbing from the ground up, the maximum possible fall factor is 1, since any greater fall would mean that the climber hit the ground.
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Other than fixed properties of the system, this form of the equation shows that the impact force depends only on the fall factor.
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will fall down the safety cable until it reaches an anchor point); to mitigate this, via ferrata climbers can use
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We will see below that when varying the height of the fall while keeping the fall factor fixed, the quantity
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in both cases, but they will be subjected to a greater force at position 1, due to the greater fall factor.
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Using the HO model to obtain the impact force of real climbing ropes as a function of fall height
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It is the main factor determining the violence of the forces acting on the climber and the gear.
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used in the fall is 80 kg. Using these values to eliminate the unknown quantity
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leads to an expression of the impact force as a function of arbitrary fall heights
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of a given rope. However, rope manufacturers give only the rope’s impact force
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can be as high as 2. This can occur only when a lead climber who has placed no
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When the rope is clipped into several carabiners between the climber and the
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which is a property of the material that the rope is constructed from. Here
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and its static and dynamic elongations that are measured under standard
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is the spring constant of the portion of the rope that is in play.
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its cross-sectional area. Solution of the quadratic gives
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Conservation of energy at rope's maximum elongation
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Equation for the impact force and its interpretation
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Index


lead climbing
dynamic rope
belayer

Energy absorber
multi-pitch climbing
big wall climbing
lead climbing
protection
via ferrata
carabiner
lanyard
energy absorbers
harmonic oscillator
elastic modulus
UIAA
belayer
friction
Whipper
"Get into via ferrata: the gear"
"The physics of a climbing rope under a heavy dynamic load"
doi
10.1177/1754337116651184
"Physics of climbing ropes: impact forces, fall factors and rope drag"
"The Standard Equation for Impact Force"
"Climbing Physics - Understanding Fall Factors"
"UKC - Understanding fall factors"
"Rock Climbing Fall Impact Force"
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